Softball

Weekly Honors: Several Cougars Grab NEWMAC Awards

Mar 29, 2010

Babson Park, Mass. - Four different Clark
student-athletes snatched up weekly New England Women's and Men's
Athletic Conference honors it was announced on Monday by the
conference office.

The men's tennis tandem of freshmen Diego Angel
(Lima, Peru) and Harris Rollinger (Lexington,
Mass.) were named doubles players of the week, while freshman
Mel
Melkonian (Worcester, Mass.) and senior Phil
DiMarco (Bellingham, Mass.) were named softball and
baseball players of the week, respectively. Melkonian also picked
up ECAC player of the week honors.

The Angel/Rollinger duo went a combined 2-0 at No. 1 doubles during
a pair of matches last week as the Cougars opened up its 2010
season 2-0. In a 9-0 season opening win at Albertus Magnus on
Tuesday, they rolled to an 8-0 win. Then in a 6-3 win over Rhode
Island College on Thursday, they collected an 8-1 victory.

Melkonian, meanwhile, has helped Clark extend its winning streak to
five games and improve to 15-3 overall. In four games last week she
hit a sizzling .727, scoring nine runs and driving in eight more.
Her big game came in the nightcap of a twinbill at MIT where she
went 3-for-3 with three runs scored and a career-high five RBI. In
the second game of the Cougars double header with Smith, she
was 2-for-2 with two RBI and two more runs scored.

So far this season, Melkonian has started all 18 games and leads
the team in batting average (.441), slugging percentage (.678),
on-base percentage (.534), runs scored (30), triples (2), total
bases (40), stolen bases (5) and walks (12).

DiMarco earned the honor after a monster week in which he hit .583
with five extra base hits, eight RBI, 17 total bases and a 1.417
slugging percentage, while going 3-for-3 in stolen base
attempts.

In a win over Framingham State, he was 2-for-3 with a double and a
homerun and a pair of RBI. In game one of the Cougars' sweep of
Coast Guard, he was 2-for-4 with three RBI and two stolen bases.
Then in the nightcap victory over the Bears, he was 3-for-5 with
three more RBI and had a single, a triple and a home run.